Desertmole
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What you are saying is technically right. The problem stems from, IIRC, the fact that when the ships on Battleship Row received their paint job, Pearl Harbor had yet to receive their shipment of Ocean Grey. As a result, the color was mixed locally, and some on the Steel Navy Board allege that the paint had too much blue pigment (similar, I think to the so-called Cavite Blue of the USS Houston). The different factions have tried to prove they are right by color interpretations of photos of the ships taken in black and white, and also by trying to analyze some color film taken around the time of the attack. These people are positively, umm, picky (another word starting with an a actually comes to mind) and no one will back down. Me, I am satisfied with the Colourcoats paints by White Ensign Models. John Snyder and his cohorts have spent years researching such stuff, and that is good enough for me.
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